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Commission finds Winter Place fourth‑floor addition "exceptional" and disapproves permit after neighbors protest scale and height
Summary
Neighbors mounted a coordinated discretionary‑review appeal against a proposed fourth‑floor addition on Winter Place, arguing height calculations, settlement‑agreement expectations and privacy impacts. The Planning Commission took DR and disapproved the vertical addition, citing exceptional privacy and massing impacts to an adjacent one‑story rear cottage.
The Planning Commission voted to take discretionary review and disapprove a proposed fourth‑story vertical addition at 1 & 3 Winter Place in a contentious hearing that included technical testimony, multiple neighborhood advocates and cross‑examination of the project’s height calculations.
Opponents argued the project exceeds allowed height and violates residential design guidelines and an earlier settlement. Frank DeRosa, representing a committee of neighbors, told commissioners that plans initialed in a 2013 settlement showed the 35‑foot height limit and that neighbors relied on those plans when they settled. "We ask that this commission uphold that standard and honor a settlement agreement that was entered into in…
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